The place Is Merely Match Board From Shark Tank Season 7 In the present day?

Co-owners Gloria Hoffman and her mom Linda Clark had the Sharks doing “The Twist” on Season 7 of ABC’s “Shark Tank” again in 2015 when the mother-daughter twosome pitched the traders their revolutionary health product, the Merely Match Board (by way of CNBC Ambition). With the Merely Match board, which was formed like a brightly-colored concave skateboard, customers would be capable to enhance their steadiness in addition to concurrently tone their again and legs and strengthen their core by merely standing on the board. Hoffman and Clark then demonstrated how customers may take their exercise a step additional by twisting on the waist because the board seamlessly slid together with them because of its extremely lubricated plastic materials. What’s extra, they defined that the board may alternatively be used as a assist for planks, push-ups, and squats.

Sharks Kevin O’Leary and Robert Herjavec fairly actually jumped on board to check out the product for themselves. Nearly instantly, O’Leary supplied $250,000 in change for a 30% stake within the firm, which was an sudden enhance from the co-developers unique asking of $125,000 for 15%. Lori Greiner was additionally , providing $125,000 in change for 20%. Hoffman and Clark countered, asking if the 2 Sharks could be thinking about a joint deal, which Greiner promptly turned down. In the end, the Queen of QVC gained out and Merely Match Board walked away with a deal.

In an ABC replace video, Hoffman defined that the corporate had achieved $575,000 in gross sales previous to taking the “Shark Tank” stage. Inside 24 hours after the episode aired, their gross sales numbers skyrocketed to $1.25 million with Merely Match Board promoting out inside six minutes following an look on QVC. The product’s attain rapidly expanded to a worldwide viewers, incomes upwards of $9 million simply seven months after Hoffman and Clark’s “Shark Tank” premiere. “This can be a once-in-a-lifetime type of product,” Greiner informed Success Journal in 2017. “We simply launched in each Residence Depot, Wal-Mart, Mattress Tub & Past and Kmart retailer, and shortly we’ll be throughout Europe, Japan and Australia.”

But this wasn’t the household’s first stab at entrepreneurship, with Clark telling Success Journal that greater than 20 years in the past she had developed an natural play dough product for youths known as Play Clay, out there in a wide range of fruity scents. It is unclear the place the product is in the present day, nevertheless, with the Play Clay Manufacturing facility web site seemingly now not accessible. In contrast to Play Clay, does Merely Match Board nonetheless have health lovers twisting and firming in the present day?

Whereas the corporate would not seem to actively promote Merely Match Board because it as soon as did, the product continues to be round in the present day. It is presently out there for buy on Amazon in a wide range of colours, with the newest 5-star buyer assessment not too long ago posted in July 2024. Nonetheless Amazon appears to be the very best — and possibly solely — place to buy a Merely Match board. The “As Seen on TV” product is listed on Walmart’s web site however is presently out of inventory. The corporate’s SimplyFit21.com web site additionally appears to be out of fee. Merely Match Board would not seem to have a lot of a social media presence nowadays both, having made their final Instagram put up over 5 years in the past.

In contrast to Merely Match Board, co-creator Gloria Hoffman continues to stay lively on the socials. In accordance with her LinkedIn profile, she is the founding father of Merely Match Methods, a title she nonetheless wears in the present day. Nonetheless, most of her private Instagram content material isn’t targeted on her entrepreneurial endeavors. Somewhat, she enjoys sharing images of household life and highlighting the athletic accomplishments of her sons. This is sensible when you think about what Hoffman informed Success Journal again in 2017 about how she personally defines success: “For me success is having the ability to spend high quality time with my boys with out the stress of cash worries. I hope my mother and I can encourage different entrepreneurs that with a good suggestion and plenty of onerous work, your goals can come true.”